5/13/2023 0 Comments Laszlo bock![]() Writing “Work Rules!” in a 16-week blitz during the final quarter of 2013, Bock drew on his nine years at Google and previous executive roles at General Electric and McKinsey & Company. The 42-year-old Los Altos resident also had research data, experience and the intangible touch - artistic sensibilities that transform algorithms, charts, metrics, black-and-white photos and personal workplace stories into an engaging mosaic with solid business leadership underpinnings. “This is my day job, so I had a lot of theory in my head,” Bock says. It’s Google, separated into irregularly shaped but perfectly interlocking pieces. The head of “people operations” at Google (what most companies call human resources) departs from the company’s usual “we speak” to craft a first-person narrative that promises to “transform how you live and lead.” Offering 10 “work rules” in a 14-chapter management manifesto aimed at defining meaningful work, the handbook reads like a puzzle in reverse. MOUNTAIN VIEW - Unrolling the geist of Google - the inner spirit of the 50,000-employee, high-tech global company - Laszlo Bock tells all in a list-centric book, “Work Rules!” (Twelve, $30, 416 pages). ![]()
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